Lead and promote Purchasing Organization

• Lead governance and coordination
• Develop relationship with Purchasing stakeholders
• Contribute to Purchasing community animation
• Facilitate sub regions internal/external auditing and identify non-compliance issues and correct actions to improve

Set up Purchasing quality & excellence

• Create, maintain, implement and monitor common Purchasing policies and procedures for North America Purchasing; perform routine audits to ensure compliance to Purchasing policies, internal audits, internal control and API/ISO audits.
• Promote, monitor and control requirements for high quality standards
• Support Purchasing and category managers and directors in Purchasing communication (share qualitative and quantitative results & benefits, …)

Manage supplier & compliance

• Manage supplier performance according to group and local process and policies.
• Support Internal and External Audits with Quality, HSE and Environmental as needed
• Recommend, monitor and report Supplier Quality Management indicators; train Purchasing community and internal customers on process and importance of SQM; assist N.A. operations in improving supplier performance.
• Manage supplier risk by identifying risk and compiling mitigation action plan according to policy and procedures.
• Support and monitor CSR compliance and conflict minerals management

Manage Purchasing excellence & performance

• Bring Purchasing value
  • Understand concepts of spend management, off/on contract spend, cost savings opportunities to develop NA Purchasing contribution plan and track the progress versus plan.
  • Ensure the Purchasing contribution which reflect P& L impact and other benefit to compensate countries inflation
  • Encourage internal / external innovation
• Process

• Identify and communicate best practices for Purchasing Master Data management; develop, maintain and improve business processes to drive efficiency and accuracy in management of supplier data. Lead the data cleansing e.g. as data harmonization and master data integration Manage supplier & compliance

• Develop effective reporting tools to facilitate accurate and timely reporting of Purchasing activity, Purchasing contribution and status to goals; consolidate and provide monthly management reports.
• Propose optimized ordering process best practices to minimize Purchasing administrative activities.
• Train the entire purchasing community on all tools, processes

• Champion increased utilization of Purchasing and communication tools through Team, e-Purchasing and e-Procurement tools, Intranet portal, etc.
• Benchmarking group best practice and sharing & learning within NA Purchasing team to identify. Actively participate in Continuous Improvement Teams (CIT).
• Review, report communication
  • Lead the relevant review meeting with the team and /or group CPO.
  • Setup, share and Monitor Purchasing performance through processes, systems and tools
  • Communicate, train the Purchasing team regularly to make sure the new policy/procedure and tools implementation